Trump's Organization Sought to Hire Almost 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.
Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.
The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.
In total, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.
The White House refused a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
